Attachment for oil-stoves



H. FERR.

ATTACHMENT FOR OIL STOVES. APPLICATION FILED u0v.29. 1920.

1,389,497. Patented Aug. 30,1921

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H. FERR.

ATTACHMENT FOR GIL STOVES.

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UNI-TED STATES PATENT ormcs.

HENRY FERR, or M1Aso1v CITY, IOWA. ATTACHMENT ron OIL-STOVES.

1 389,4 97. I Specification of I etters Patent. Patented Aug. 30, 1921. Application filed November 29, 1920. Serial No. 427,082.

To all whom it may concern: tank adjacent one edge of the depression 11 e it known that I, HENRY Fnnn, a citizen are doors 12, the hinges of these doors being of the United States, residing at Mason City, Indicated at 13. he doors 12 are substanin the county of Cerro Gordoand State of tlally Semi-circular in cross section and are Iowa, have invented new and useful Improvided near each edge with laterally exprovements in Attachments for Oil-Stoves, tending longitudinal flanges 14, which are of which the following is a specification. adapted to engage within the longitudinal his invention relates to improvements in edges of the depressions 11, so that when stoves and has especial relation to an imt e doors are closed, the escape of heat along provement i il t these edges will be prevented. The doors An object of the present invention is the 12 are provided with openings 15 which are provision of means for utilizing the heat preferably covered with mica or other transwhich is thrown off from the burner chimparent material.

neys of an oil stove, for the purpose of heat- The semi-circular depressions 11 and the ing water and thus divert to a useful purdoors 12 are designed to provide chimneys pose, the heat which is otherwise wasted. for the burner of the stove, the latter being nother object of the invention is the indicated at 16. These burners are of the provision of means for carrying out the usual type commonly employed in connecabove bj t, hi h may b dil ttached tion with oil stoves, having an annular flange to an ordinary oil stove and may be so con- 17 upon which the usual burner chimney is structed as to replace the usual burner chimupported. The present invention is demy now i signed to replace these chimneys. The tank further object is the provision of an at- 10 1s provided at the lower end of each of tachment of the above character which is of the semi-circular depressions 11 with an ansimple construction and which will permit nulus '18, havlng an inwardly extending of ready access to the burners when desired. flange 19 which is adapted to rest upon the With the above and other objects in view, flange 17 of the burners, so that the latter the invention further includes the following extend upwardly within the space provided novel features and details of construction, by the depressions 11 and the doors 12, the to be hereinafter more fully described, illusurners being plainly visible through the trated in the accompanying drawings and openings 15 in the ordinary manner. The pointed out in the appended claim. eat in the burners is thus positioned within In the drawings the line of the front wall of the tank, so that Figure l is a, front elevation of an oil the latter partially surrounds the burners stove with the improvement applied thereto. and the heat from these burners will thus Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the readily heat the contents of the tank. same, he top of the tank is provided with a Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section. filling opening 20 which is located beneath Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the and closed by the top 21 of the stove. The invention removed from the stove. bottom of the tank is supported along its.

eferring specifically to the drawings, rear edge by legs 22. wherein like characters of reference denote It wil be seen from the foregoing decorresponding parts, the invention is shown scription and the accompanying drawings, as comprising a tank 10 which is designed that the invention provides a novel form of to form a reservoir for water. This tank is tank which may be substituted for the usual preferably rectangular as shown and is proburner chimneys of an ordinary oil stove'for vided in its front wall with spaced semi-cirthe purpose of providing means for utilizcular depressions 11, two of such depressions ing heat from these burners to heat water. being shown, as the tank illustrated is de- If desired, a draw-off cook 23 may be prosigned for use in connection with a two vided for the purpose of removing the burnerstove. It isof course obvious that water from the tank or reservoin 'the tank may be constructed for stoves hav- The invention is susceptible of various ing any number of burners. changes in its form, proportions and minor ingedly secured to the front wall of the details of construction and the right is herein reserved to make such changes as properly fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having described the invention what is 5 claimed is 2- The combination with a stove including a plurality of burners, of an annulus surrounding the upper end of said burners, a rectangular tank carried by said stove and 10 provided with a plurality of semi-circular depressions, oppositely curved doors and forming flues therewith v and hingedly secured to one edge of each depression, engaging said annulus and provided with a plurality of openings, laterally extending longitudinal flanges formed integrally with the outer edge of said doors and means for retaining said doors in closed position.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

c HENRY FERR. 

